Magdalen Hill Down
Magdalen Hill Down, Chilcombparish:
county:
coords:
Chilcomb
Hampshire
SU5029
otherwise: Magdalen Hill
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
... Whiteflood is at the foot of the first of a series of hills over which you come to get to the top of that lofty ridge called Morning Hill. The farmer came to the top of the first hill along with me; and he was just about to turn back, when I, looking away to the left, down a valley which stretched across the other side of the Down, observed a rather singular appearance, and said to the farmer, 'What is that coming up the valley? is it smoke, or is it a cloud?' The day had been very fine hitherto; the sun was shining very bright where we were. the farmer answered, 'Oh, it's smoke; it comes from Ouselberry, which is down in that bottom behind those trees.' ...
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From the top of this high land called Morning hill, and the real name of which is Magdalen hill, from a chapel which once stood there dedicated to Mary Magdalen; from the top of this land you have a view of a circle which is upon an average about seventy miles in diameter; and I believe in no one place so little as fifty miles in diameter. You see the Isle of Wight in one direction, and in the opposite direction you see the high lands in Berkshire. It is not a pleasant view, however. The fertile spots are all too far from you.
